The Third Reich in Desperation

Because they were afraid of being shot down by German planes, they arranged to fly back to Moscow by special plane at dusk when the sky was dark.

Under the icy gaze of the other party, Klimovsky felt a lot calmer: "Do I have to go back?"

"Yes, everyone on the list has to go back to Moscow. This is the request of Comrade Leader Stalin himself." The two committee members said in unison.

"Well, that's easy..." Klimovskikh laughed.

Even Stalin personally intervened, and there was no suspense about their fate when they went back.

At this time, Grigoriev, the communications director who had been sitting in the corner of the headquarters without saying a word, spoke as if he didn't exist: "The internal communication of the front army has been restored. Within 12 hours, we can completely dispatch the entire front army." action."

"Even if you restore communication, you can't stay. You must leave with us." The special commissioner looked at Grigoriev who suddenly spoke at this time, and insisted mercilessly.

"Comrade Special Commissioner, you may have made a mistake." Klimovsky immediately answered, "What the communications director meant is not what you think."

Don't you want to redeem yourself?The two special committee members looked at each other in blank dismay. They thought that the other party wanted to take credit for their restoration of communication and stay here.

However, Chief of Staff Klimovskikh took the words, and the two special committee members who had just let go immediately turned pale again.

"With communication restored, we can inform the entire front of the order to surrender to the Wehrmacht!"

Only then did the special committee realize that the smile on Klimovskikh's face was a sneer!

"We're not going back to Moscow, so...you two don't go back either!"

As they spoke, the two special commissioners saw the guards of Klimovskikh and strode towards them...

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In Rastenburg in East Prussia, Germany, also known as the "Wolf's Lair", Reinhardt, who visited the forward headquarters in person, was pleasantly surprised to find that Stalin's luck seemed to be much worse than in history.In other words, his Reinhardt's luck is so lucky now!

In the battle between Belarus and Pavlov's Western Front, the Soviet army caught in a huge encirclement not only did not insist on fighting as in the original history and caused heavy casualties to the German army, on the contrary, this battle was won extremely easily.

A total of about 49 Soviet soldiers were captured, more than 2500 cannons and more than 3400 tanks were destroyed or captured. This result is a comprehensive optimization of the Minsk encirclement and annihilation battle in the original history that Reinhardt knew. over again.

Contrary to the history he is familiar with, the Soviet Western Front in the encirclement basically did not put up any tenacious resistance, and the technical weapons captured by the German army were much higher than the German command expected.What is even more gratifying is that the number of captured Soviet troops in the Battle of Minsk this time was a full 20 more than in the original history!

There were only about 5 Soviet troops who fled outside the encirclement.

On the Soviet side, Commander Timoshenko, who was sent by Stalin to take over the command of the remaining troops of the Western Front, was not so much taking over the remnants of a Front Army as he was taking over the command of an army, not even an army group!

It has to be said that the Western Front Army is indeed the commander-in-chief of many fronts in the Soviet Union and has the best weapons and equipment.

According to the full deployment standard of an armored division in Germany, a division with 324 tanks is considered a well-organized and powerful armored force, and in most cases, many armored divisions of the German army did not meet this standard.

It's not because Germany can't produce so many tanks, it's because the German armored forces are expanding too fast, and people and equipment are often transferred from the original armored forces to serve as the backbone of the new armored divisions. Take the personnel tank.

On the other hand, the German army has been in a state of war for almost a long time, and the number of tanks in the army will be more or less continuously depleted, resulting in a constant decline in the number of tanks in each division.

From this point of view, the Western Front of the Soviet Union was destroyed and captured more than 3400 tanks in one go. Put them in the German army, which is enough for 10 fully equipped armored divisions!

Reinhardt has never refused these captured Soviet tanks.Especially after this battle was fought, many Soviet tanks were directly handed over to the German army by the Soviet army under a white flag, and they were not captured on the battlefield.

The senior generals of the Western Soviet Army who stayed in the encirclement circle did not know what they had been stimulated. Suddenly, under the leadership of their chief of staff Klimovskikh, they collectively expressed to Bock's Central Army Group that they would surrender as an organization. And hand over all weapons, equipment, ammunition and supplies.

Among them, the division commander of the Fourth Tank Division of the Western Front of the Soviet Union, Major General Potatulchev, directly led the tank division with complete combat effectiveness, surrendered the tank completely and surrendered.

Because these Soviet tanks were more mobile and retreated early to avoid contact with the Germans, their losses have been minimal.This also led to, after they surrendered, the German army seized almost all the tanks and armored vehicles of the [-]th Tank Division of the Soviet Army.

At the request of Reinhardt, the German army had already prepared for the comprehensive utilization of these captured armored weapons. The depth and breadth were beyond the imagination of ordinary people. It can be said that every piece of Soviet equipment All kinds of armored vehicles can be placed and allocated in the German battle order at that time.

In this way, the Soviet armored forces almost became the mobile armored combat vehicle arsenal of the German army, allowing the German army to increase its own strength through this kind of capture and effectively make up for the congestion of its own military production capacity.In a sense, General Pavlov, the former commander of the Soviet Western Front, has become the first "transport captain" of the German army in disguise.

In addition, in the Western Front Army, the rest, large and small, from the Chief of Staff of the Front Army to the commanders and division commanders of the various armies, also looked like this, and surrendered to the German army very readily.

They handed over their weapons and gave up their garrison, allowing Marshal Bock to occupy the rest of Belarus almost effortlessly.

Not only Marshal Bock in the Central Army Group headquarters, but even Reinhardt in the "Wolf's Lair" couldn't help but feel ecstatic about the Central Army Group's victory this time.

Captured nearly 50 Soviet troops in one breath. This was already an almost crazy victory. It broke the record of the scale of the German encirclement in Poland and became the new "largest encirclement and annihilation battle in history".

What is even more fortunate is that the Soviet army that was encircled this time gave up resistance and voluntarily surrendered.This allowed the German army to save a lot of effort to clear the troops inside the encirclement, and also avoided a lot of casualties.

In addition to the seven Ukrainian divisions that had previously defected from the Southwest Front Army, there were about 7 troops.The number of captured and mutinied Soviet troops alone has reached 10!

You know, 20 years ago, the total strength of the German Wehrmacht was only 10.Today, the army evolved from 10 people has forced 70 Soviet troops to surrender without a fight, and has easily reduced the enemy's 70 troops. This result has been worthy of the pride of the German high-level for a long time up.

This is not over yet. On the day the Western Army in the encirclement surrendered, Marshal Bock of the German Central Army Group signed a new combat document, arranging for Guderian to lead the Second Armored Corps straight to Smolensk-opening the gate of Moscow the key!

At this time, Guderian was already the famous "Scud Heinz".

Guderian, who served as the commander of the 2nd Armored Army, was under the command of the Central Army Group together with the 3rd Armored Army of Admiral Hoss.

第2装甲兵团的兵力配备有第24装甲军下辖有第3、第4装甲师，第10摩托化步兵师，第1骑兵师。以及第46装甲军下辖有第10装甲师，党卫军祖国步兵师，大德意志步兵团。还有第47装甲军下辖的第17、第18装甲师，第29摩托化步兵师。

Guderian brought such a huge mobile force, and Hoth's 3rd Armored Army, with a pincer offensive into the deep rear of the Soviet army, and implemented it at a depth of 400 kilometers in the Soviet Union, that is, Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Encirclement action.

After completing this task, Guderian's remaining purpose now is to prevent the Soviet army from recollecting the remnants of the Western Front Army (although there are not many of them), and to prevent Timoshenko from having enough troops to form a new line of defense, so as to create a new line of defense for the Soviet army. The entire war against the Soviet Union laid a decisive foundation.

If nothing else, Smolensk, an ancient Russian city that once became a terrible obstacle on the way for Napoleon's French army to Moscow, this time it will not be difficult for Reinhardt's German army!

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In fact, when Bock gave the order to attack, the vanguard of Guderian's 2nd Armored Army rushed to the front line of the Dnieper River.

Later, Guderian also followed Model's original tactics and sent the "shadow troops" of the SS Fatherland Infantry Division. Qiao Zhuang dressed up as Soviet soldiers withdrawn from the front line and captured the Dnieper River Bridge in the east of Smolensk.

Immediately after the "shadow troops" occupied the bridge, the 29th Motorized Rifle Division of the Second Armored Group quickly passed the bridge and rushed all the way to a point about 20 kilometers away from Smolensk.

Since the start of the Minsk siege, Guderian felt that everything was going smoothly. In less than half a month since the start of the war, his armored forces quickly captured Minsk, and rushed to Smolsk. .

The Central Army, without relying on the troops of the Spanish and Italian allies, relied on its own strength and swept the entire Belarus within half a month. This speed is almost the same as Guderian's vision of the "Barbarossa" plan. exactly the same.

As a German armored soldier expert, Guderian had imagined many troubles, but when he actually participated in the war, he was pleasantly surprised to find that since the difficulties he expected were much greater, the actual battle situation was very smooth.

Guderian, who has repeatedly studied the Barbarossa plan, believes that as long as his Second Panzer Army can take down Smolensk, the next target will be Moscow. It seems that the Soviet Union will not even be used for 3 months!

At this time, Guderian remembered a sentence recently circulated among the top generals of the German Central Army Group, "We only need to kick, and the entire Soviet Union, which is like a decaying building, will collapse."

Perhaps the new style displayed on the battlefield is too one-sided, and even Guderian now feels that this makes sense.

If it weren't for the corruption within the Soviet Union, why would the nearly 50 Soviet troops in Belarus easily choose to surrender, and why 10 Ukrainian soldiers would defect and defect to the Allied camp.

This probably also confirms the previously mentioned domestic intelligence that the Moscow government of the Soviet Union is very unpopular in Belarus and Ukraine.

For Guderian, it doesn't matter whether the Moscow government is popular in Belarus. Anyway, his troops will soon take Smolensk in Russia. Waiting for the next step to take Moscow, this is unpopular The government should disappear.

At this time, Guderian just wanted to leave the headquarters that was already very close to the front line immediately, and go further to the front-line troops. He hoped that after the troops captured Smolensk, he would immediately enter this historic city. .